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From: Steven Goodwin <steve@cit.gu.edu.au>
To: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: Motherboard recommendations for ATHLON.
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While we are on the subject of ASUS boards, my A7M266 is currently causing
kernel panics.  It uses the AMD 760 chipset (which seems to be the
culprit) but I'm hoping that recent fixes will solve the problem.  I'm
compiling now with fingers crossed (metaphorically).

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Scott wrote:

> At 07:12 2002/04/13 -0700, User Tomdean wrote:
> >Be wary of ASUS boards with the integrated GeForce2 AGP.  Look at PR
> >kern/28418.
> >
> >I have an ASUS A7N266-E that will not work with XFree86!  If I run a
> >text console, it looks great.  But starting X freezes the system.  No
> >panic.  No dump.  I have to press reset to reboot!
> 
> 
> It seems that many ASUS boards have problems--mine is with the A7A266 
> (though mine was fixed with a hack--Tom, I'm sorry that it didn't work for you)
> 
> IN GENERAL--it seems that the problem is with the ASUS boards and 
> XFree86-4.x rather than one vid card or another (I've duplicated the 
> problems with a few different cards)
> 
> Scott Robbins
> 
> 
> 
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